How Far Right Can The President Pull The Courts?

By Ed Beeson | March 9, 2018, 10:38 PM EST

Trump’s Turn: How Far Right Can The President Pull The Courts?

By Ed Beeson

March 16, 2018 The crowd at the Federalist Society event couldn’t have been more thrilled. It was November, and one of the Trump administration’s top lawyers was on stage, talking up the ongoing efforts to reshape the judiciary and tilt it to the right. Cheers followed when Don McGahn, the White House counsel, said President Donald Trump was committed to appointing judges in the mold of the late Supreme Court Justice Antonin...